The Bauhaus was a German school of design from 1919 to 1933. It was a movement that was strongly influenced by the outcomes of World War One and rejected the ideals of the past and embraced the age of the machine. By focusing on the materials and the eradication of superfluous decoration‚ the Bauhaus established a new ideal‚ which was‚ form following function. Through their manipulation of established and new products this enabled them to emphasise the very ‘materiality’ of the items they produced
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The Bauhaus was a German Art school that operated in 1919 through to 1933 created by Walter Gropius. There was many positive aims to the creation of his school of fine arts and crafts of different sorts‚ Gropius believed that “Architects‚ painters‚ sculptors‚ we must return to crafts! For there is no such thing as ‘professional art’. (Walter Gropius‚1919). The Bauhaus focused on two things mainly‚ one being the coming together of all creative people and secondly a dream of creating a school that
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Cultural context In this essay I will be discussing the architectural qualities of the ‘Farnsworth House’ by ‘Mies Van Der Rohe’. Mies Van Der Rohe was born in Germany in 1886 and died in USA in 1969. He managed to complete projects such as ‘Commonwealth Plaza’‚ ‘860-880 Lake Shore Drive apartments’‚ Crown hall’ and ‘Seagram Building’ in which the structure for all was out of steel and glass. (Franz SCHULZE 2004:294) It could be said that architectural qualities can be the set of qualities
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PROJECT: Chicken Point Cabin LOCATON: Chicken Point‚ Idaho‚ U.S.A. OWNER: Unknown ARCHITECT: Olson Kundig Allen Architects CONSULTING ENGINEERS: Monte Clark Engineering CONTRACTOR: Doric Creager‚ MC Company‚ Spokane FUNCION: Residential Architecture PROJECT COMPLETION: 2002 The Chicken Point Cabin is Located in the North Western area of the states‚ Idaho. In Idaho the climates are similar to its neighbor state Washington where it is much cloudy and precipitates almost
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What is Post-Modernism? The aim of this essay is to explain how Post-Modernism has influenced our contemporary built environment and explain what other movements have derived from it. I would argue that Post-Modernism is a worldwide movement in all arts and disciplines. A definition of postmodernism will provide a better understanding of the trend that would show how it is relevant to contemporary culture and important for the future. Postmodernism became an important movement right after
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GEOFFREY SCOTT AND ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM 2 3 Introduction In Geoffrey Scott’s book The Architecture of Humanism (1914) formulates a series of arguments against a number of theoretical positions. Scott identifies these theoretical positions as fallacies underlying architectural theory which is not proper to architecture. The four types of fallacy he distinguishes are the ‘Romantic Fallacy’‚ the ‘Mechanical Fallacy’‚ the ‘Ethical Fallacy’ and the ‘Biological Fallacy’. This paper is to
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From Embodying Ornament to Functional and Aesthetic Space in Early-20th-Century Architecture. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Despite the risk of sounding cliché by opening with a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote‚ this is where we shall begin. It is something that relates back to a basic human instinct that is so deeply rooted in our DNA. Why do we yearn so intuitively for ideas that are silly and nonsensical? The answer is balance. Everything in the universe
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Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe became the cornerstone for modernism architecture in 20th century. Until today‚ it is still the foundation for the development of architecture throughout the world. However‚ these two architects found their distinction in expressing their own modernism. Villa Savoye and Barcelona Pavilion are the landmarks in the success of Corbusier and Mies‚ also the discrimination in architectural styles of the two. Villa Savoye of Corbusier encountered Barcelona Pavilion of Mies in the
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imitated many times and became an icon of North American corporate design. Mies is known as the father of the steel and glass structure. Mies designed many buildings during his life however none of the would be as popular and famous as the Seagram Building. In real estate and architecture‚ some dreams need a lot of staying power to get realized. The Seagram Building is the realization‚ some three decades late‚ of Mies van der Rohe’s dream of a glass-covered‚ high-rise office tower that would provide
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HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE NAME: ARCHITECTURE 310 TEST #2 THE FOLLOWING ESSAY QUESTIONS ARE DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS April 18th‚ 2013‚ AFTER THE SLIDE I.D. 1. DISCUSS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROPIUS’S BAUHAUS SCHOOL AND AALTO’S PAIMIO SANATORIUM BAUHAUS PAIMIO SANATORIUM A. Bauhaus - Use rectangle shape to divide the area for different function. Paimio Sanatorium - Different angle to separate different
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